🆕 Software Suggestion | PrivacySpy #1313
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Name: PrivacySpy
Category: Information
URL: https://privacyspy.org
Description
PrivacySpy uses a consistent rubric to grade major services' privacy practices on a ten-point scale. It's a new open source project that is dedicated to making privacy policies more accessible. PrivacySpy is not unlike ToS;DR (which is already featured in the "Information" section), except it takes a more rubric-driven approach to grading the policies, and it's dedicated to privacy policies only. Full disclosure: I'm one of the maintainers of PrivacySpy, but given that the project is open-source and supported by a non-profit, there's no ulterior motive here.
Here's an excerpt from the "About" page:
Source code (website): https://github.com/Politiwatch/PrivacySpy-Core
Source code (extension): https://github.com/Politiwatch/PrivacySpy-Extension
Also, there are (of course) no ads, trackers, etc. on the site. (And it's all open source, so you can verify that!)
I missed your link, but https://github.com/Politiwatch & https://github.com/Politiwatch/PrivacySpy-Extension weren't directly linked.
I am not a coder or able to read the source code and it's 00.36 for me, so this was all I am going to do right now.
I'll update my original post to include those links, too! Thanks.
Thanks for sharing! Looks really helpful.
it looks pretty good, it looks like a sleeker version of tosdr.
i have some questions though: are you aiming to get as many services on there as possible, or mostly just bigger onces? if so, how do you plan to keep all the ratings up to date?
Hey @blacklight447-ptio —
We're trying to get as many services on there as possible, but we're focusing mainly on starting with the biggest ones.
That said, we plan to take archives of as many sites' privacy policies as we can (without assigning ratings) because simply having an archive of a service's privacy policy at a certain point in time can be helpful. For example, having unrated policies on the site allows us to track changes to that policy, even if no one has gotten around to rating it yet.
That said, for the sites that do have ratings, here's how we plan to keep everything up to date:
Anyway, I hope this conveys how we plan on keeping all the info on the site up to date—and how, when things inevitably become out of date, we plan on getting things corrected ASAP.
I see, i like it a lot that you already have policies in place for this, as this is one of my main critiques for Tosdr. i also enjoy that your client are open source. I also noticed the project is affiliated with some non profit call politiwatch, could you tell me a bit more about it?
Sure @blacklight447-ptio — Politiwatch is a non-profit that I run that houses public accountability, civic information, and data privacy projects. It exists primarily so that the projects can receive tax-deductible donations and receive discounted infrastructure. (Some service providers give discounts to non-profits, like ProtonMail and DigitalOcean.)
Here's the homepage: https://politiwatch.org
I would actually be fine to replace tosdr with this in the extension section. this is mainly because tosdr seems to be rather dead
@Mikaela @JonahAragon @dawidpotocki @nitrohorse thoughts?
Just chiming in to say that I'm glad that the response to PrivacySpy has been so positive. I don't have any opinion on whether to remove ToS;DR from the site—as I see it, ToS;DR is a different kind of service, so having both might not be an issue—but either way, all is well.
I just hope PrivacySpy ends up on the site! I think it could really be a helpful tool for a lot of people.
Oh that's all okay, but the problem is is that tosdr seems to be rather inactive , so we no longer know how long it has been since someone checked it, without going thru the hassle and checking the policy ourselves (hence defeating tosdrs purpose)
Their blog isn't even setup, and their browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome haven't been updated in a year but it looks like the project is still active based on their GitHub activity and working group. Regardless I think PrivacySpy would be a good addition.
Maybe after https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/1327 ?
Ah yeah, forgot to mention that; extension categories would be good before more additions I think.
I appreciate the clear rating system of PrivacySpy and the attempt to use natural language processing to allow the reader to read an excerpt of the privacy policy. Hence, I find the whole reviewing process of PrivacySpy very transparent and I think this combination of a structured and transparent reviewing process gives it good chances to stay relevant for the foreseeable future, if it gets enough review contributors on boat.
I have created a PR if PrivacySpy is still considered a good fit for PTIO :-)
Are we still in agreement this is the way to proceed? I'm doing a major cleanup as a part of #1328 and #1430 so we might do this too.